{"id":1523,"date":"2010-01-11T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2010-01-11T19:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:11:52","slug":"water-cooler-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"Water cooler talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are registered patent attorneys more successful litigators than those attorneys who are not registered?\u00a0 I imagine the answer you\u00a0get to that question\u00a0will depend on whom you ask.\u00a0 In looking at the number of registered attorneys arguing patent cases\u00a0at the Federal Circuit, however, I found the breakdown between registered attorneys and unregistered attorneys extremely interesting.\u00a0 There is a clear pattern of there being\u00a0a greater percentage of\u00a0unregistered attorneys arguing\u00a0on behalf of\u00a0appellees.\u00a0 And, a clear pattern of there being a greater percentage of registered attorneys arguing on behalf of appellants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellee-chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1538\" title=\"appellee-chart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellee-chart.jpg\" alt=\"appellee-chart\" width=\"1352\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellee-chart.jpg 1352w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellee-chart-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellee-chart-1024x686.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1352px) 100vw, 1352px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellant-chart2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1536\" title=\"appellant-chart2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellant-chart2.jpg\" alt=\"appellant-chart2\" width=\"1352\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellant-chart2.jpg 1352w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellant-chart2-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/appellant-chart2-1024x658.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1352px) 100vw, 1352px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, as fodder for discussion around the water cooler, what do these statistics mean, if anything?\u00a0 Does the higher percentage of unregistered attorneys representing appellees mean that unregistered attorneys are better trial lawyers, can think more like jurors or judges, are highly skilled appellate lawyers at general practice firms?\u00a0 \u00a0Does the higher percentage of registered attorneys representing appellants mean that when the stakes are high, parties bring in a\u00a0hired-gun appellate lawyer with a registration number?\u00a0\u00a0What about the high reversal rates at the Federal Circuit &#8212; what do they suggest about the ultimate outcome of a case?\u00a0 \u00a0Do the trends have anything to do with movement of patent litigation and patent litigators\u00a0away from boutique patent firms to large general practice firms?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know the answer to these questions\u00a0&#8212; but, I do find the opposing trends interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are registered patent attorneys more successful litigators than those attorneys who are not registered?\u00a0 I imagine the answer you\u00a0get to that question\u00a0will depend on whom you ask.\u00a0 In looking at the number of registered attorneys arguing patent cases\u00a0at the Federal Circuit, however, I found the breakdown between registered attorneys and unregistered attorneys extremely interesting.\u00a0 There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}